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The Solid Letter : Readings of Friedrich Hölderlin / ed. by Aris Fioretos.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cultural Memory in the Present
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (536 p.) : 7 illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Written in the context of a rejuvenated interest in the work of Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843), the essays gathered in The Solid Letter offer the first consolidated attempt in English to set out the many facets of his oeuvre. Addressed not only to specialists in German studies but also to readers interested in modern poetry, philosophy, and aesthetics, the volume is wide in scope but succinct in nature, aiming to assert the relevance of Hölderlin for thinking about history, culture, and language today. The Solid Letter not only reads Hölderlin's finished work, but also treats the processual character of his writing. By discussing interrelationships among unpublished variants, theoretical and poetic texts, and different conceptions of the distinction between theory and practice, the essays provide an opportunity to reassess the categories by which humanistic study presently is defined. The volume addresses the implications of Hölderlin's notion of history, the stakes involved in certain of his key concepts, and the significance of seemingly auxiliary materials and kinds of texts not commonly considered intrinsic to an author's oeuvre (such as translations and letters). The essays are attuned to the complex resonances of Hölderlin's writerly practice, thereby contributing to our grasp of the political and historiographical implications of reading. The volume concludes with a select bibliography of Hölderlin in English that lists all book-length translations of his literary writings, the more significant translations of his theoretical texts and letters, and most critical studies available in English devoted in part or whole to Hölderlin.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Sources and Abbreviations
- Contributors
- Introduction
- PART I
- Measure for Measure HÖLDERLIN AND THE PLACE OF PHILOSOPHY
- The Calculation of the Poet
- Poetry's Courage
- 'Winke' DIVINE TOPOI IN HÖLDERLIN, HEIDEGGER, NANCY
- Holderlin's Christ
- Epistolary Writing, Fate, Language HÖLDERLIN'S 'HYPERION'
- PART II
- Figures of Duality HÖLDERLIN AND GREEK TRAGEDY
- Monstrous History HEIDEGGER READING HÖLDERLIN
- Disowning Contingencies in Holderlin's 'Empedocles'
- Reading the 'Poetics' After the "Remarks"
- Ancient Sports and Modern Transports HOLDERLIN's TRAGIC BODIES
- Color Read HOLDERLIN AND TRANSLATION
- PART III
- The Philosophy of Poetic Form HÖLDERLIN'S THEORY OF POETRY AND THE CLASSICAL GERMAN ELEGY
- "Brod und Wein" FROM THE "CLASSICAL" FINAL VERSION TO THE LATER REVISION
- Turns and Echoes TWO EXAMPLES OF HÖLDERLIN's POETICS
- Hölderlin's Marginalization of Language
- The Highest
- Notes
- Hölderlin in English: A Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)
- ISBN:
- 1-5036-1652-5
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